Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.